What's Going To Happen To The Eastland Mall?

The Charlotte Chamber held a luncheon for some of its members in East Charlotte on Tuesday to give them an update on its plans for the now-vacant Eastland Mall on Central Avenue. Here are some highlights, and some perspective on what's going on at the site.

Zeiler told me that Eastland Mall will never be a mall again. Whatever comes next will require the mall's demolition. Who pays for that demolition is still up in the air. But we've already talked to studio heads who say the mall would have to come down before a studio goes up:

Zeiler went on to say that the city will spend the next 45 days studying whether a studio makes sense at Eastland. Part of the research includes a look at whether North Carolina will keep its competitive film incentives, which Evan Hesse of Central Avenue Pictures says are quite good and are responsible for luring projects like Ironman 3 and The Hunger Games into the state: